Give reasons why, using scripture. That's like me saying that the AC is not going to be Lithuanian and leaving it at that! There are a lot of parallels with Islam and the nature of the Beast.
The parallels only exist because when the muhammeden (I think followers of muhammed were called muhammeden before they were called islamists/muslims, etc.) wrote the koran they interlaced verses from the Bible/Torah within their own writings. I am sure, some muhammeden read the Revelation of John and decided to give their "10th immam" the traits of the person least like Jesus Christ as possible. Which so happens to be the AC. They did this to sell islam as a legitimate religion. It's the classic mix a little truth in with fiction and you can convince people it is true.
Islam came about over 400 years after Christ died. So, people in that part of the world knew of Jesus, they were also mostly illiterate, but they had just enough knowledge of Christianity that they could be easily manipulated into believing a lie. Muhammed came along, and for whatever reason, like many people and false prophets do still today, used religion to gain power and wealth. Once he got enough followers they began being deifying him as the prophet of prophets.
In my mind, he is no more a prophet than david koresh, or Joseph Smith, Jim Jones, etc. were. He was just in a time where people were superstitious and ignorant enough to believe he was anything special. Also, convert or die was a very convicing proposition for most people.
To see the koran as a prophetic book, means to make it equivalent to the bible and no Christian should ever make that mistake. We can expect the world to be gullible enough to believe in the prophecies of the koran. But Christians should know better.
Well said.